{"id":938752,"date":"2021-10-29T18:43:41","date_gmt":"2021-10-29T22:43:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=938752"},"modified":"2021-10-29T18:43:42","modified_gmt":"2021-10-29T22:43:42","slug":"mcauliffe-campaign-denounces-lincoln-projects-disgusting-and-distasteful-tiki-torch-stunt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mcauliffe-campaign-denounces-lincoln-projects-disgusting-and-distasteful-tiki-torch-stunt\/","title":{"rendered":"McAuliffe Campaign Denounces Lincoln Project\u2019s \u2018Disgusting And Distasteful\u2019 Tiki Torch Stunt"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmcauliffe-campaign-denounces-lincoln-projects-disgusting-and-distasteful-tiki-torch-stunt%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=938752&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>Democratic gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe denounced the Lincoln Project\u2019s Friday morning tiki torch stunt designed to falsely link Republican gubernatorial candidate Glenn Youngkin to white nationalism.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat happened today is disgusting and distasteful and we condemn it in the strongest terms. Those involved should immediately apologize,\u201d McAuliffe campaign manager Chris Bolling said in a statement to the Daily Caller News Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>The Lincoln Project, a pro-Democratic group, took responsibility for the five individuals who were pictured by NBC29 reporter Elizabeth Holmes Friday morning outside a Youngkin campaign bus proclaiming their support for the Republican candidate while holding tiki torches and wearing khakis, white button-up shirts and baseball caps.<\/p>\n<p>One of the individuals pictured was black. The individuals\u2019 outfits appear to resemble what white supremacists wore during the deadly 2018 \u201cUnite the Right\u201d rally in Charlottesville.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"8.6881355932203\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">These men approached <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GlennYoungkin?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@GlennYoungkin<\/a>\u2019s bus as it pulled up saying what sounded like, \u201cWe\u2019re all in for Glenn.\u201d Here they are standing in front of the bus as his campaign event at Guadalajara started.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBC29?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@NBC29<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/l681ejyBjc\">pic.twitter.com\/l681ejyBjc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Elizabeth Holmes (@holmes_reports) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/holmes_reports\/status\/1454094826824212485?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 29, 2021<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Multiple Democratic operatives, including McAuliffe spokeswoman Christina Freundlich, used the images to allege Youngkin\u2019s supporters were white nationalists.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" readability=\"7.8461538461538\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Notice that the only people interacting with this story are Democratic Political Operatives, all retweeted by Parkhomenko. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Dj4Ykc3ZC7\">pic.twitter.com\/Dj4Ykc3ZC7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Alec Sears (@alec_sears) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/alec_sears\/status\/1454135037276958722?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 29, 2021<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Lincoln Project issued a statement Friday afternoon taking responsibility for the stunt.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday\u2019s demonstration was our way of reminding Virginians what happened in Charlottesville four years ago, the Republican Party\u2019s embrace of those values, and Glenn Youngkin\u2019s failure to condemn it,\u201d the group said. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/10\/29\/lincoln-project-takes-responsibility-for-tiki-torch-stunt\/\">(RELATED: Lincoln Project Takes Responsibility For Tiki Torch Stunt At Youngkin Rally)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Lincoln Project admitted its involvement in organizing the stunt after a Vice News reporter identified one of the individuals pictured holding a tiki torch as a low-level Democratic operative that works for the liberal undercover news show, The Undercurrent, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en\/article\/3abzaj\/lincoln-project-posed-as-charlottesville-white-supremacists-at-youngkin-gop-event\">Vice News<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>The Undercurrent Executive Director <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lawindsor\/status\/1454211815806619651?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet\">Lauren Windsor<\/a> disclosed on Twitter she coordinated the Friday morning stunt with the Lincoln Project in her \u201ccapacity as a communications consultant.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Youngkin campaign spokesman called the McAuliffe campaign the \u201cdirtiest, nastiest, most dishonest campaign in Virginia history\u201d Friday morning shortly after the images of the tiki torch stunt surfaced.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"11.751091703057\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Terry McAuliffe\u2019s campaign has been the dirtiest, nastiest, most dishonest campaign in Virginia history.<\/p>\n<p>This morning they\u2019re closing out his career by going even lower. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/VAgov?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#VAgov<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Matt Wolking (@MattWolking) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MattWolking\/status\/1454114631727861768?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 29, 2021<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>McAuliffe spokesperson Renzo Olivari told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/mcauliffe-youngkin-election-virginia-charlottesville\">Fox News<\/a> on Friday hours before the Lincoln Project took responsibility for the stunt that nobody affiliated with the campaign had any involvement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is one candidate in this race who has embraced white nationalists \u2014 and his name is Glenn Youngkin,\u201d Olivari said.<\/p>\n<p>Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact <a href=\"mailto:licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org\">licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe denounced the Lincoln Project\u2019s Friday morning tiki torch stunt designed to falsely link Republican gubernatorial candidate Glenn Youngkin to white nationalism.\u201cWhat happened today is disgusting &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":108,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-938752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/108"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=938752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938752\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=938752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=938752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=938752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}